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Congress, ) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, j Document 
Session. j | No. 154. 



RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY BRITISH PARLIAMENT. 



MESSAGE 

FROM THE 



PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 



TRANSMITTING 



A COMMUNICATION FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBMITTING 
RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT RELATIVE 
TO THE ENTRY OF THE UNITED STATES INTO THE WAR. 



May 26, 1917. — Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be 

printed. 



TJie Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a communica- 
tion from the Secretary of State covering copies of a note from the 
British ambassador and the resolutions passed by both Houses of 
the British Parliament on April 18, relative to the entry of the United 
States into the war. 

WooDRow Wilson. 
The White House, 

Washington, Mai/ 26, 1917. 



Departmext of State, 
Washington, May S3, 1917. 
The President: 

The undersigned, the Secretary of vState, has the honor to lay 
before the President a copy of a note from the British ambassador 
transmitting, for the information of the Government of the United 
States, resolutions passed by both Houses of Parliament on April 18, 
relative to the entry of the United States into the war. 

The undersigned has the honor to recommend that the inclosed 
copies of the resolutions be transmitted to the Senate and House of 
Representatives for the information of Congress. 

Respectfully submitted. 

Robert Lansing. 



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2 RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY BRITISH PARLIAMEN'. 

No. 142.] 

British Embassy, 
Washington, May 18, 1917. 
Sir: I have the honor, by direction of His Majesty's Government,.^ 
to transmit for the information of the United States Government ;; 
the accompanying copies, signed respectively by the Lord Chancellor " 
and the Deputy Speaker, of a resolution passed by both Houses of 
Parliament on the 18th of April, relative to the entry of the United 
States into the war. 

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, 
Your most obedient, humble servant, 

Cecil Spring Rice. 
Hon. Robert Lansing, 

Secretary of State of the United States. 



That this House desires to express to the Government and people of the United 
States of America their profound appreciation of the action of that Government in 
joining the allied powers, and thus defending the high cause of freedom and the 
rights of humanity against the gravest menace by which they have ever been 
imperiled. 

FiNLAY, Lord Chancellor. 

House of Lords, 18th April, 1917. 

House op Commons, 18th April, 1917. 
Resolved, That this House desires to express to the Government and people of the 
United States of America its profound appreciation of the action of that Government 
in joining the allied powers, and thus defending the high cause of freedom and the 
rights of humanity against the gravest menace by which they have ever been 
imperiled. 

John Henry Whitley, Deputy Speaker. 

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